Ragged School Museum

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Telephone

020 8980 6405

Fax

020 8983 3481

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The Award winning Museum is housed in three Victorian canalside warehouses, converted by Dr Barnardo into a ragged school. Visitors to the Museum today can take a journey through the history of the region as well as experience what it was like to be taught over one hundred years ago by 'stepping back in time' to the atmospheric recreated Victorian classroom.

Venue Type:

Museum, Heritage site

Opening hours

Wed-Thurs 1000-1700First Sunday of each month 1400-1700

Admission charges

Free

Collection details

Social History

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Workshop, club or activity

Easter at the Ragged School Museum

1 — 2 April 2015 10am-5pm

8 — 9 April 2015 10am-5pm

Join us at the Ragged School Museum for two weeks of family fun, exploring art and design in the nineteenth century! From Gothic Revival architecture to the wallpaper of William Morris, we'll be taking a look at the best of Victorian art and design. Visitors will get the chance to become artists themselves, plus there'll be free face painting, an Under 5's play room, and the Towpath Cafe will be open for thirsty grown ups!

The building where Thomas Barnardo fed and educated thousands of impoverished Victorian children, The Ragged School Museum, is finally enjoying restoration work after a fundraising campaign. Director Erica Davies tells us more.